Audio Recording Apps
Croak.It is an easy to use app that allows you to record up to 30 seconds of audio by only pushing one button and share it with a link. This is a great app for explanations, reading fluency, pronunciation work, and podcasts. Students can choose to make "croaks" public or private and can search for and collect the audio snippets from around the world in a personalized collection. No login is required.
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Audio Memos Free lets you record and share via email, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, or to the Cloud. Recordings can be unlimited in length and you can re-record portions of a memo if you made a mistake. The app is easy to use with a simple and intuitive interface. Other cool features in the pro version ($0.99) are the ability to attach pictures to voice recordings while recording, combine recordings, timer-activated recording, audio compression, and adjusting recording quality.
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Audio Boom allows users to create up to ten minutes of audio per clip for free with as many clips as you would like. It works with both iOS and Android devices as well as on the web. You can record and edit straight from the app and lets you search and listen to podcasts, playlists, and content providers. You can add pictures, titles, and tags before uploading and sharing via social media.
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SoundNote ($4.99) is a great app for taking notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio and allows for sharing of your text, drawings, and audio notes via email or iCloud. Audio notes are recorded in standard M4A format so that one hour of high quality audio is only 25mb. During playback, tap a word and SoundNote will jump to the proper time in the audio.
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Mobile Podcaster ($2.99) is an iOS app that lets you record and publish podcast episodes to your self-installed WordPress site. There is a limit of 15 minutes recording time. The site must be WordPress.org 3.6 or newer and will need a Space Upgrade to allow audio file uploads to the media library. Recordings can be paused and categorized, uploaded to Dropbox or FTP server, emailed, or downloaded to iTunes.
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iPadio lets you record, broadcast, playback, and share high quality audio up to 60 minutes in length. The app lets you add titles, descriptions, images, and instantly upload to your ipadio.com account or cross-posted to your Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Posterous, Blogger, Live Spaces, or LiveJournal accounts. Each audio clip also comes with its own selection of embed codes, which you can grab off your online ipadio account and put onto your website.
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